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He might not look it, but Johnny Depp turns 52 today. And while he hasn’t spent all 52 of those years in Hollywood, he has given us countless memorable moments since exploding on the scene in the ’80s.

The tatted superstar with very interesting taste in movie roles is as pretty as he is mysterious, so in honor of a great actor (and his remarkable cheekbones), here are 52 of his best moments, from his many words of wisdom to his best characters and everything in between:

1. In Don Juan DeMarco: “There are only four questions of value in life … What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? And what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: Only love.”

3. His appearance on Ricky Gervais’ Life’s Too Short, particularly when he gave Gervais a taste of his own medicine (scripted, of course). And this time when they went on The Graham Norton Show to talk about it.

4. “I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”

5. His Inside the Actors Studio interview, where he told James Lipton that his favorite word is “why,” his turn-off is “not breathing,” and he wants God to say “wow” when he arrives at the pearly gates.

6. His underrated performance in Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

7. In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: “Me, I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you want to watch out for.”

8. The fact that he changed his right shoulder tattoo to “Wino Forever” after breaking up with Winona Ryder.

9. When he told David Letterman that he doesn’t see any of his own films because “it’s really none of my business.”

49. “If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”

50. “Tomorrow it’ll all be over, then I’ll have to go back to selling pens again.”